TextPolish Now Writes Discussion Board Posts and Peer Replies

We have shipped a new feature: Discussion Posts.

It is a dedicated tool inside the TextPolish dashboard that generates discussion board responses and peer replies for online college courses. Both modes are tuned to produce writing that sounds like a real student and passes AI detection tools including Turnitin, GPTZero, and Copyleaks.

Why We Built This

Discussion boards are a fixture of online education. Most online courses require weekly posts: an initial response to the professor's question, plus two or three replies to classmates. For a student taking two or three online courses, that is six to nine pieces of writing per week that receive little feedback and carry modest weight individually but add up to real grade pressure.

The problem with using a general-purpose AI tool for discussion posts is that the output reads like a general-purpose AI tool wrote it. Professors recognize the structure. AI detectors flag it. And the posts rarely engage with the specific question asked in a way that feels genuine.

We built Discussion Posts to solve the actual problem: generate a first-person response that addresses the specific question, sounds like a student wrote it, and can be personalized with notes, a writing style sample, and a target word count.

Two Modes

Response mode generates an initial discussion post answering the professor's question. Paste in the question, optionally add notes about your personal angle, set a word count, and get a draft back in seconds. Reply mode generates a peer reply to a classmate's post. Paste the original discussion question for context, then paste the classmate's post. The reply engages with what the classmate actually wrote rather than producing a generic acknowledgment.

What Makes It Different

Most AI writing tools write in a formal, neutral register. That works for essays and articles. It does not work for discussion boards, where a response that sounds like a GPT-4 summary gets noticed.

Discussion Posts writes in a student voice. The output uses first person, hedged language, personal examples when notes are provided, and the kind of natural sentence variation that characterizes real academic discussion writing. The tonal target is a student who takes the class seriously but writes the way people actually write, not the way a style guide says they should.

When a writing sample is uploaded in TextPolish settings, the feature uses it. A writing sample from a previous assignment calibrates the voice so the output sounds like the specific user, not a generic student.

Think Harder Mode

Think Harder mode is available for both Response and Reply. It uses a more capable underlying model and produces output that is measurably harder to identify as AI-generated. For high-stakes discussions or courses with instructors who read closely, Think Harder is worth using.

Plans

Discussion Posts is available on Pro and Ultra plans.

Pro supports up to 2,000 words per request with Think Harder included. Ultra supports up to 5,000 words per request. Most discussion board formats require 150 to 300 words, so Pro is sufficient for the vast majority of assignments.

The feature is gated from the free and Basic tiers because the underlying generation is more compute-intensive than standard humanization.

Where to Find It

Log in to TextPolish and look for the Discussion tab in the dashboard, next to Humanize, Outline, and Paraphrase. If you are on Pro or Ultra, it is active immediately.

If you are not yet on a qualifying plan, the pricing page has the details.